CCIE Contract Job Trends in London

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 315 318
Rank change year-on-year -37 +3 +158
Contract jobs citing CCIE 29 51 78
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.35% 0.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.70% 1.35% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 34 46
10th Percentile £304 £352 £252
25th Percentile £400 £441 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £510
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +20.10% -7.27%
75th Percentile £575 £694 £600
90th Percentile £625 £750 £688
England median daily rate £525 £600 £510
% change year-on-year -12.50% +17.65% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.25
Median hourly rate - - £37.50
75th Percentile - - £38.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £37.50

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

CCIE falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,160 3,782 4,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.85% 25.87% 24.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 2,383 2,927
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £432 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £657
90th Percentile £750 £774 £773
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 60 92
10th Percentile £20.77 £21.13 £19.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.37 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £38.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.10% -15.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £63.25 £60.19 £65.27
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.48
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £52.35
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.79% +16.34%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCIE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

CCIE job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCIE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCIE

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCIE in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CCIE in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCIE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCIE

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCIE within the London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -3 4 £575 +2.04% 1
West London -15 2 £405 +15.71%
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (17.24%) SharePoint
2 3 (10.34%) Confluence
3 1 (3.45%) JBoss
3 1 (3.45%) OpenStack
3 1 (3.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) MS Visio
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (6.90%) IaaS
3 2 (6.90%) PaaS
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (68.97%) Firewall
2 18 (62.07%) BGP
3 17 (58.62%) OSPF
4 14 (48.28%) WAN
5 13 (44.83%) VPN
6 11 (37.93%) Network Security
7 9 (31.03%) LAN
7 9 (31.03%) SD-WAN
8 8 (27.59%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (17.24%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (17.24%) EIGRP
10 4 (13.79%) BIG-IP
10 4 (13.79%) Ethernet VPN
10 4 (13.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 4 (13.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (13.79%) VoIP
10 4 (13.79%) VXLAN
11 3 (10.34%) DNS
11 3 (10.34%) MPLS
11 3 (10.34%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.24%) Telecoms
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Retail
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Billing
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Electronics
5 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Network Engineer
2 10 (34.48%) Architect
3 9 (31.03%) Network Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Senior
4 3 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Lead
6 1 (3.45%) Lead Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Network Design Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Network Security Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Network Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) VML
2 2 (6.90%) Jinja
3 1 (3.45%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.45%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) IoT
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Migration
1 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (17.24%) Change Management
2 5 (17.24%) ITIL
2 5 (17.24%) Security Architecture
2 5 (17.24%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (17.24%) TOGAF
3 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (13.79%) Configuration Management
3 4 (13.79%) Load Balancing
3 4 (13.79%) Runbook
3 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (10.34%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (10.34%) Agile
4 3 (10.34%) Analytics
4 3 (10.34%) Business Case
4 3 (10.34%) DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) Low Latency
4 3 (10.34%) Network Architecture
4 3 (10.34%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) Python
2 1 (3.45%) C
Qualifications
1 29 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (68.97%) CCNP
3 6 (20.69%) JNCIE
4 4 (13.79%) CCSE
4 4 (13.79%) JNCIP
4 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
5 2 (6.90%) CCDE
5 2 (6.90%) CISSP
6 1 (3.45%) CCDP
6 1 (3.45%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (3.45%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 1 (3.45%) CCNA
6 1 (3.45%) CWNA
6 1 (3.45%) GIAC
6 1 (3.45%) GSEC
6 1 (3.45%) MCITP
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (3.45%) VCDX
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (6.90%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.45%) KVM
Systems Management
1 11 (37.93%) Ansible
2 6 (20.69%) Terraform
3 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.45%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 24 (82.76%) Cisco
2 10 (34.48%) CheckPoint
3 8 (27.59%) Arista
3 8 (27.59%) F5
4 6 (20.69%) Meraki
5 5 (17.24%) Aruba
5 5 (17.24%) Juniper
6 4 (13.79%) Fortinet
6 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
6 4 (13.79%) Palo Alto
6 4 (13.79%) Remedy
6 4 (13.79%) ServiceNow
6 4 (13.79%) Zscaler
7 2 (6.90%) VMware
8 1 (3.45%) AirMagnet
8 1 (3.45%) Citrix
8 1 (3.45%) Google
8 1 (3.45%) IBM
8 1 (3.45%) SonicWALL
8 1 (3.45%) Wind River